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Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 20:23:38 +0200
To: Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il>
From: Sven Huster <sven.huster@mailsurf.com>
Subject: Re: diskless operation
Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
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References: <Your message of Wed, 11 Apr 2001 16:44:40 +0200 .>
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At 18:18 11.04.2001, Danny Braniss wrote:
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>In message <5.0.2.1.0.20010411164359.00a63880@mx01.mailsurf.com>you write:
>
>}But my interface has no ip after boot!
>}So dhclient needs to be invoked.
>
>if you are booting via bootp/pxe then the loader will have placed in the
>environment some info. see kenv(1), or before loading, type show.
>
>look in /etc/rc.diskless1, it will try and figure out the interface and set
>some variables so that rc.network can do the rest. do you get a message, like
>  Interface exp0 IP-Address 10.0.0.1 Broadcast ... ?
>
>as far as i know, you dont't need dhclient if you are booting diskless, unless
>there is other info you need, such as gateway, dns server, etc.

Got the message but no ip in there.

regards

Sven Huster
Senior IT Systems Administrator
*BSD, Linux, Solaris


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